Finke would say things such as: 'I don't want team leaders. That's a line of thinking that buries other players' strengths.' He would shock the members of football's old boys' club of task-masters by saying: 'The only kind of discipline that the team needs is that the players use their heads and make decisions by themselves.' He challenged the star-struck public by declaring: 'Our playing system does not depend on the individual.'

